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10 STORIES OF ROBIN HOOD
“You are the best archer I have ever seen,” he
said. “I trow you shoot even better than that rascal
and coward of a Robin Hood who dared not show his
face here today. Will you join my service?”
“No, I will not, ’ ’ answered the scarlet-clad stranger,
and then the sheriff looked at him so spitefully that he
knew it was well to get away. As he walked toward
Sherwood Forest, the sherifl:"s words rankled.
“I cannot hear to have even my enemy think that I
am a coward,” he said to Little John. “I wish there
was a way to tell the sheriff that it was Robin Hood
that won his golden arrow.”
And they found a way. That evening the sheriff
sat at supper, and though the supper was a fine one.
his face was gloomy.
“I thought I could catch that rascal Robin Hood by
means of this archery contest,” he said to his wife,
“but he was too much of acoward to show his face
here. ”
Just then something came through the window and
fell rattling among the dishes on the table. It was a
blunted gray goose quill with a bit of writing tied to
it. The sheriff unfolded the writing. It told that it
was Robin Hood who had won the golden arrow.
When the sheriff read it, even his wife thought best to
slip away, for he was the crossest man in Nottingham.
HOW LITTLE JOHN JOINED ROBIN HOOD
This is the story of how Robin gained his right hand
man and dearest friend, Little John. Little John was
one of the tallest and strongest youths that ever walked
through a forest. When Robin Hood first saw him, he
was walking in the edge of the forest and came '60 3